Nagasaki Persuasive Speech

In August 1945, little more than three weeks after the Trinity test inaugurated the atomic age, the United States detonated “Little Boy” at precisely 8:15 a.m. over Hiroshima, killing an estimated 140,000 people, the considerable majority of whom were civilians. That single bomb completely annihilated the Japanese city. Days later, the same fate was visited on Nagasaki. Over the years, people have debated whether or not the bombings were necessary or gratuitous; justified or criminal; responsible for Japan’s surrender or largely irrelevant to it. The bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima remains the first and only deployment of the atomic bomb used in conflict. It successfully brought World War II to a conclusion. Today, with the last of the remaining
As an example, the U.S., Russia, UK, France, China, India, and North Korea have cooperatively carried out around 2,000 nuclear weapons tests. The Federation of American Scientists approximates there are now more than 17,000 nuclear warheads—nearly a quarter of which are classified as “operational”. But in spite of attempts to prevent nuclear stockpiles, there’s an increasing proliferation of nuclear weapons, especially in those parts of the world with long term conflicts. If countries such as North Korea, Pakistan, and Israel have them, it will be tempting for them open up the possibility of using them
The United States contemplated using nuclear weapons during both the Korean and Vietnam wars—but did not use them. US leaders and commanders rejected the nuclear option not because they feared retaliation, but because they understood the physical, humanitarian, and political consequences that the nuclear option would have involved. In other words, it is not a contender’s readiness to use nuclear weapons, but rather recognition of these weapons’ cataclysmic impact, that has prevented wartime nuclear detonations for 70